Attitude Magazine

The World’s Best Gay Magazine. We pride ourselves on exclusive content and we are the premier destination for film, music, sports and pop stars plus LGBT heroes and allies that want to speak directly to gay men. Each issue has a balance of features on a diverse range of subjects, with block busting A-list celebrity exclusives and in-depth analysis of news and issues affecting the LGBT community. No other gay magazine can come anywhere near Attitude’s star pulling power, with celebrities such as James Franco, Tom Hardy, Elton John, Sacha Baron Cohen, Ian McKellen, Liam Payne, Take That, Matthew Lewis and countless more giving exclusive gay press interviews to us. Plus we have the likes of Paris Lees, Matt Lucas, David Furnish, not only appearing in the magazine but also writing for it.

Meet the team • WHICH ACTOR WOULD PLAY YOU IN A MOVIE AND WHY?

UP & DOWN • WHAT WE’RE ROCKING AND BLOCKING

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The Rules • …for planning the perfect first date

Last orders? • James Lindsay, managing director of iconic queer venue The Royal Vauxhall Tavern, says coronavirus presents one of the UK gay scene’s gravest threats yet

Self-discovery in isolation

#INSTAMAN • DANCER CONOR MCKENZIE SURE KNOWS HOW TO LIMBER UP, CONTORTING HIMSELF INTO ALL KINDS OF IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES — EVEN IN THIGH-HIGH BOOTS.

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Lexus LC500 • And now for something completely different, where different means very good indeed

KEY TO LIFE • Music prodigy Declan McKenna, now 21, has never shied away from the big issues, from transgender suicideto FIFA. As his second album, Zeros, is aboutto drop, Attitude talksto him about staying creative in lockdown — he shot his own cover shoot! — and figuring out what life’s about

Freaks, flower power and acid drag • Fifty years ago, drag collective The Cockettes transformed the performance scene for ever. As a documentary of the troupe’s history is re-released to commemorate their golden anniversary, thespian and drag fabulist Dickie Beau speaks to four surviving members

Over the rainbow • Shaking up the queer literary scene, author Paul Mendez drew on his painful past for his must-read debut novel, Rainbow Milk

OUTRAGE! MISSION STATEMENT • OutRage! is a broad-based group of queers committed to radical, non-violent direct action and civil disobedience to:

LONG MARCH TO VICTORY • Three decades since OutRage! formed during the virulently homophobic early 1990s, Peter Tatchell reflects on the direct activism of the game-changing queer-rights movement

OUTRAGE! VERSUS STONEWALL

The Fixer • One of the fab five that make up Netflix hit Queer Eye, interior designer extraordinaire Bobby Berk opens up about escaping his religious upbringing in Missouri, becoming a household name and appearing in TayTay’s You Need to Calm Down video

BEYOND • Celebrity stylist and fashion designer Kyle De’Volle has drawn on his experiences growing up in care and his sexuality to take his projects further than just fashion. As well as styling the likes of Rita Ora, Bruno Mars, Andreja Pejić and Leigh-Ann from Little Mix, he’s the founder of LGBTQ+ project C.4.K.E.

Sanjay Sood-Smith • Co-founder of Tuk In & executive director for Workplace and Community Programmes for Stonewall

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WE PRIDE • Pride marches and events across the globe may be called off for social distancing, but we should still celebrate it however we can. Here, we ask prominent members of our community what Pride means to them

Iran’s invisible people • A black cat at night. The threat of oncoming rain. Coronavirus. Just because you can’t see something, doesn’t mean it isn’t there. Remember former president Mahmoud...